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LOOM TEMPLE. l PatentedlVIar. 20, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM HARLEY TAYLOR, OF HAMPTON, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS- TO JOHN MAYNARD AND HARRY BASKERVILLE, BOTH ,OF BOWMANVILLE,

ONTARIO, CANADA.

' Loom-TEMPLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.' 379,917. dated March zo. 1888.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, WILLIAM HARLEY TAYLOR, of Hampton, in the Province of Onn tario, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Loom-Temples; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had'to the accompanying drawings, in whichro NFigure l is a top or plan view of my ini- 'proved temple, and Fig. 2 is an end View of the same.

My invention has for its object to simplify the construction and increase the efficiency of x 5 loom-temples and economize labor in attendance. l

My invention consists of a plate provided with slots for the adjustable attachment of the temple to the breast-beam of a loom by bolts, 2o and having a ridge along which the selvage of the cloth runs, and a iat spring-tongue secured to the plate and having a sharp inclined point or tooth bearing against the plate laterally of the ridge, to enter the selvage when the cloth is under'lateralstrain in weaving and rise to the surface of the selvage by the pull of -the cloth in winding on the cloth-beam, as hereinafter described.

A is a plate provided with slots A near one 3o end, to secure it to the breast-beam of a loom by bolts, the slots allowing the plate to be ad justed so that the opposite end may be placed nearer to or farther from the reed, in ordinary cases about one-half an inch.l The plate A 35 has a ridge, a, which may be formed -by cutting out aportion of the plate lengthwise and upsetting the edge. This ridge presses into the selvage at about one-eighth of aninch from its outer edge.

B is a flat spring-tongue, pivoted at one end to plate A near the slots, and the other or free end of the tongue is curved to cross over ridge a, and is provided with a tooth, b, at the eX- tremity, which tooth, by tension ofthe spring, is pressed upon plate A. The tooth inclines diagonally, so as to enter the selvage when the cloth is stationary and resist the lateral strain in weaving; but When the cloth is pulled by the cloth-beam the free end of the spring-tongue is thereby lifted, andthe point of the tooth 5o rises to the surface of the selvage to allow the cloth to pass and be wound upon the clothbeam.

Cisa stop-stud in plate A to limit the movement of spring B, to canse the tooth b to resist the lateral strain of the cloth in Weaving.

The temples are made right and left, so as to be applied to the breast-beam near each end.

Should it be necessary to release the cloth from the temple, the free end of the springtongue AB is raised by hand to lift the tooth b clear of the ridge, whereby the spring-tongue can be moved pivotally clear of theselvage.

The cloth moves through the temple inthe course indicated by the arrow, and the salvage is shown in dotted lines.

I claim as my invention- 1. A loom-temple consisting of a plate and spring-tongue secured ilatwise together at one end, the plate havinga ridge lengthwise of the 7o tongue, and the tongue having an inclined toothlaterally of the ridge and bearing against the plate, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

erally of the ridge, as set' forth.

WILLIAM HARLEY TAYLOR;

Witnesses:

J oHN K. GALBRAITH,

J. C. NOBWORTHY.

2. The combination, with the plate A, having 

